2023-08-08 - Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle

Setlist

Banter

This song is new. [cheering] If you don't know my stuff, I'll explain over the next 15 minutes what this song is about. There was a character on a record called All Hail West Texas named Jenny [cheering]. Her name was Jenny and we know her mainly by her absence. The first song we ever hear of her, she's riding off on a motorcycle with someone on the back of it. It was a Kawasaki 900 in the original draft, but I've revised it for the new album to be a 750 GPZ, because as we all know, that's what she should ride. If I had the choice, it's what I would ride, but I'm too old to buy motorcycles, so. Oh yes I am, I have children. So, we know her mainly by her absence, in the voice of the narrator who misses her and remembers his time with her well, and one thing I don't do is revisit old characters. Another thing I like to do is break my own rules. So I sat down about a year and a half ago and wrote a song and her name popped up, and I said, what if I just did a whole album of that? That is the new record, it's called Jenny From Thebes. And if you're hardcore, her house in the record is the Color in Your Cheeks house. [woo!] And if you're not hardcore, I advise you to go hardcore and stay that way. (Clean Slate)